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Remarkably intact FW-190 in forest
chris8X57
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Found in a forest outside of Leningrad, it evidently went down from engine failure after an attack on a Russian train.
This Fw-190 is in the States being restored, but the video of where it was found is really cool.
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2011/03/my-entry.html
~Chris
This Fw-190 is in the States being restored, but the video of where it was found is really cool.
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2011/03/my-entry.html
~Chris
Comments
how come they never find bones in these intact finds?
wildlife
how come they never find bones in these intact finds?
Whoever stumbled upon it first probably would have tossed any remains aside, in the hunt for MGs and cannons.
What's to say the pilot didn't survive... ?
story says he survived the landing and 15 years in a prison camp. which was HIGHLY unusual according to the flight group statistics.
Tom
What a great story! The German pilots were involved in fantastic combat on the Eastern Front.
Just imagine if the Wehrmacht had not exhausted itself in those massive battles in the East.
Eisenhower wouldn't have been President in 1953, he would have been in a German POW camp.
how come they never find bones in these intact finds?
In that condition, he probably walked away.
It was called "The Butcher Bird" by allied pilots, who knew and feared it.
What a great story! The German pilots were involved in fantastic combat on the Eastern Front.
Just imagine if the Wehrmacht had not exhausted itself in those massive battles in the East.
Eisenhower wouldn't have been President in 1953, he would have been in a German POW camp.
They were massive battles indeed. Hence, the extremely high kill ratios of the German pilots to allied pilots. Many aces were over 200 kills-- Hartman, Barkhorn, and Moelders to name a few.
Also, there was no combat rotation for the Germans. They fought until they were killed or the war ended.
Great Britain is still discovering crash sites that never gave the appearance of being one, even when they were new. A lot of fighters were lost in night actions, and went in going straight down, literally burying themselves. One English farmer had a Spitfire crash in that manner only about 50 yards from his house one night, but he said that he never suspected that it was a crash site. It was more like a lightning strike, with only disturbed ground - and a few strips of aluminum of unknown origin, laying about. Decades later, someone took the anecdotal story and figured out what had happened, and excavated the site. The pilot's bone shards were strung out vertically for 17 feet, below which was the engine. And nonetheless, the pilot was identified, another MIA who finally made it home.